> I broke my win XP cygwin install such that bash fails to start. Fixed it. Dependency walker showed that my bash had a dependency to ncurses, ncurses had the broken entry point dependancy into cygwin1.dll. So i just rolled back ncurses to the last version. Also had to roll back mintty for the same reason. In the process of rolling everything back that got updated by this last failed update. Happy days.
> I used Setup.exe version 2.870. > The install failed when trying to run the postinstall bash scripts. > After the install failure bash fails every time with: > The procedure entry point __locale_ctype_ptr could not be located in > the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. > > The install failed because it tried to install cygwin 2.6.0 which is > not compatible with winxp. > > I reran Setup.exe to grab cygwin version 2.5.2-1 but the install still > fails with the same cygwin1.dll error. > > Already tried to grab cygwin version 2.5.0 (which is the last known > good cygwin version that ran on my machine) from the time machine, but > I keep getting the same cygwin1.dll error. Any ideas how to fix this. > > Thank you > Will On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:50 PM, William Forsyth <trikio1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I broke my win XP cygwin install such that bash fails to start. > > I used Setup.exe version 2.870. > > The install failed when trying to run the postinstall bash scripts. > > After the install failure bash fails every time with: > > The procedure entry point __locale_ctype_ptr could not be located in > the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. > > > The install failed because it tried to install cygwin 2.6.0 which is > not compatible with winxp. > > > I reran Setup.exe to grab cygwin version 2.5.2-1 but the install still > fails with the same cygwin1.dll error. > > > Already tried to grab cygwin version 2.5.0 (which is the last known > good cygwin version that ran on my machine) from the time machine, but > I keep getting the same cygwin1.dll error. Any ideas how to fix this. > > > Thank you > > Will -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
